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ThisBank Launches in the UK with Branchless Banking and Competitive Savings
New digital bank strives for a personal touch in banking services.Highlights: ThisBank launches branchless banking services in the UK.Focuses on competitive savings rates and customer satisfaction.Aims to combine technology...
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PayPal Boosts Agentic Commerce Offering Through Cymbio Acquisition
The acquisition enhances PayPal's capabilities in online retail integrations.Highlights: PayPal has acquired Cymbio to enhance its commerce offerings.Cymbio...
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OnePay Partners with Klarna to Enhance BNPL Options for Shoppers
New collaboration allows debit card purchases to be converted into loans.Highlights: OnePay partners with Klarna to offer BNPL...
FinTech
Noah and Picnic Launch USD-Native Payroll for Brazil’s Workforce
New partnership aims to streamline payment processes for global workers in Brazil.Highlights: Noah teams up with Picnic to...
FinTech
ThisBank Launches as UK’s Newest Branchless Bank, Promising Human Touch
The innovative bank aims to transform customer service with a personal approach.Highlights: ThisBank officially launched as the UK’s...
Microsoft puts a spotlight on AI in its Windows app store
In its early days, the Microsoft Store (which was previously known as the Windows Store), had a bit of a middling reputation, in part...
Microsoft launches an AI tool to take the pain out of building websites
Microsoft wants to take the pain out of designing web pages. AI is its solution.
Today marks the launch of Copilot in Power Pages in...
Wellen taps OpenAI’s GPT for a chatbot that dishes advice on bone health
What are AI chatbots good for? Lovers of sci-fi novels may recall the “librarian”, a character in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 classic Snow Crash; not...
Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI
At its Google Marketing Live event today, the tech giant announced that it’s launching Product Studio, a new tool that lets merchants easily create...
Google to experiment with ads that appear in its AI chatbot in Search
AI chatbots have only just been put into consumers’ hands, but tech giants are rushing to monetize them. Shortly after Bing Chat’s arrival, Microsoft...
Figure’s humanoid robot takes its first steps
Toward the rear of the office, an engineer is working on a metal hand. It looks human enough — roughly the same size with...
This Week in Apps: ChatGPT comes to iPhone, Bing AI efforts expand, Instagram’s Twitter clone
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall...
Climate risk startup Mitiga gets $14.4M to help businesses face an uncertain future
One pretty obvious aspect of the climate emergency which may have flown under your radar is that human-driven global heating is disrupting traditional approaches...
Meta bets big on AI with custom chips — and a supercomputer
At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI like...

